Multiple choice

Directions: The passage given below is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Key in the number of the option you choose as your answer.

There is no escaping this basic truth. Indeed, challenges help us to grow. The normal process is to perceive a problem and then bring our emotional and thinking abilities into play in order to solve the problem. We can draw on our own legacy of experiences, and we can find support from our life partners, friends, the community, society’s body of knowledge, and spiritual sources. Faced with a problem, we experience some anxiety – and this uncomfortable feeling motivates us to solve the problem in order to find our balance again. In the process, we become more flexible and more adept at dealing with problems in the future. As we mature, we discover that problems are not insurmountable – and we get better at problem-solving.

  1. Man’s vast resource of his abilities, experiences and relationships is often drawn on as problems become more daunting.

  2. Challenges form the fabric of man’s life; an escape from them is a delusion.

  3. Problems get less challenging in that they themselves condition man in dealing with them better.

  4. Problem solving is a process that is best learnt.
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C Correct answer
Explanation
  1. True, man’s vast resource is drawn on as problems become daunting; however, this is not the message that the author wants to convey. It is the conditioning of man that problems / challenges do that ready man to face more challenges in a better manner.
    1. The author does not talk about escaping the problems.
    2. True. It is the conditioning of man that problems / challenges do that ready man to face more challenges in a better manner.
    3. True. Problem solving is a process that is learnt. However, the way man learns this is the message or essence of the passage captured in option 3.

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